South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-07-22

! column folio newspapsr cal led the
Prison Mirror the object Of the en-
terprise bsirg to beneat the prison
library fond.
Fire destroyed The N-,ropolhan
Storage warshoase, in New Yo,k,
sntailinR loss ~ about $500. 600.
An Investigation cf the 1900 unts u
disbursing ofncefs Of the various d.
par,menis in washington 10 IN psos
Irese.
Fssrfully bot wsa' her Wa exp. si-
encsd In the middle. southsra and
western Ssatss this wsek. the mercs>
~ ranging from 100 to 100 in The
shaae. A great many deaths from
suustroke occurred ia the large cities
and towns oil over tie country.
John Thomas. colored, Was u uchs
ed in the Court house ct Union CITY;
lndiana, While beiog tried for outras
ging . little girl.
The cole operators Of the Counsllsa
Vile Pei region. Who brooghl hue.
drsds OF Hunearians over to this
countfy 20 take the place. OF their
American employees on account Of
strikes. are getting their Gil Of The
unreliable E0reIgners. Tnsy are %
fond OF strikes - their American
brethren. and have officers OF the
Hungarian, army among them Who
have been driiling them Tor come time;
and how Lhep ane trying 10 drive away
Pinksrton's detectives from the Lsis
senring works, hundreds OF ~hoM
were sent there recently to keep them
from destroying the property of the
different coke companies.
There 10 man at Mt. Sterling KY.
one Of whoss legs 10 turning TO stone.
iiis limb has become 40 hard AMI
heavy from the hip down that be ID
fearful of breaking OF one or more OF
his toes in walking, and he hnds t.
increasingly difficult to walk 1t ell.
The doctors are pnwerlsss to Aid him.
The prospect 10 that he vii become
petrified alive.
jacob Sharp. the New York "boo.
die" alderman. has been sen,sncediq
four years imprisonment and One
OF $4,000.
Weyer's cave. in Virginia, will be
made an excursion resort by the Bale
timore and Ohio Railroad Company: .
A man in Frankfort. KY, came near
dying from taking. in the course Of
month. 4 pounds OF bird shot. Some
one had told him It 10 gold for the
asthma. v'rc-5
Two Baltimore and Ohio express
trsins co'lided at Gsithersburg. Md.
h.juriny many passengers and badly
damaging both trains.
Judge Allen G. Thurman has re-
fused 10 be candidate for governor
Of Ohio. .r
Its said that two electricians st
Munich hsvs invented a. impfuvss
msnt for the tele phone by which words
and sentences can be transferred 70 :
chemicnlly prepared paper. :
An attempt was made ny religious
fanatics to kill the Grand Duct esi
Elizabeth, Of Russia, who 10 Luths-
ran. because che refus q to join .hs
Greek church, which is tho estabi si:
ed religion Of Russia.
A great fire in baltimore Friday af-
ternoon destroyed thu Maryland Ho--
miny and Cotsiins Mill, partly con-
sum, d the eleva' or o the &. A Gam.
brill Manufacturing Company, and
damaged three buildings belong ng to.
Enoch Pratt, The to- al 60 mated dam.
age being about $500. 900. and the
aggregate insurance about two .lbirds
Of that amount. :, J
The Piedmont and Cumberland.
Railroad obtained possession at Cook.
erly farm Friday. and began the ork
OF kack.lsving with 100 men.
DR. McGIynn contemplates Q cult
for 500 OO0Agaiust A rchbishop Cor.
rigan for c'nepiracyt atih defamation
Of character, in Accommodating
BIN pursuant 10 instructions from
the Pope.
A passenger train ran into an oil
train az St. Thomas. Ont. Friday.
The oil tanks burst and caught hrs /;
both trains we're consumed and IL
persons burned to death.
A west bound freight train on the,
Burlington and Missouri Railroad was
In collision with an extra stock tisin
about four miles east OF Lincoln, Ne.
brasks, Saturday, on O small bridge.
The bridge caught fire. causing q con.
hagration, which consumed both en-.
gines and thirteen loaded cars, in.
GLIDING two OF cattle. The dsmake
w'il approximate 5000, 900.
James Tollv. an eccentric farmer :.
near Sbelhyville, Illinois, had 81, 500
stolen from his house by burgla . re- ,
Gently. Tue burglars overlooked
$4,000 in coin. Thursday folly
vas PEI sosded by bis wife TO take
the coin to Sbelbyville and deposit
II In bank. The coin was in one
package and two men were required
TO remove 1t from the wagon.
Miss MolIie Garfield, fsughter OF
the late President Garfield, is engsg.
cd 70 he married to Mr.. J. Stsniey
Brown. Dir. Brown was the private
secretary OF President Garfield.
TIE business failures tbroug bout
the country during che last seven days
number :or the United States i49,
end for Canada 80, or q total of ITO,
as compared with q total of I54 lsst
week and l6l the week previous TO